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australia puts the welcoming map out to taurus soft, almost 2 years, but they must be double vaccinated. ah, the troops and tanks are on the ukrainian border, but it's a big day of diplomacy as well lead as work to reverse a possible russian invasion. i sat with the french president emanuel monk crow who is in moscow for one on one talks with russia as vladimir putin. and in care of the german foreign minister has just met with a ukrainian counterpart her 2nd visit there in 3 weeks. finally, the new german chancellor, all of schultz, is in washington. he's holding talks with you as president joe biden in the next few hours. and finally, the polish president on the i do, there has met e,

u and nato leda's. as the lines continues its deployment of troops to the region, there is a process now going on within nato. also, of course, in goals. consultation with all media medical commanders to adjust our preston, cindy, sun portal. the alliance to refer to strength from our deterrence on defense. i. if russia really wants less methyl across the borders, they get the opposite. let's go straight to dominant cane has been watching developments, and he joins us from berlin. so dominic, the german chancellor has been under a lot of pressure domestically for not doing enough on the ukraine crisis. today's meeting with president biden. what more can we expect from germany in the coming hours? one of the funny things about this right now, and indeed for the course of the last week or so perhaps 2 weeks is that there has

been building pressure on the german government, particularly on chancellor shots with people asking where is he, what's he been doing? what's the up to? well, now we know he is in washington d. c, meeting president biden, where we can expect all manner of declarations of friendship alliance between the 2 countries publicly. but privately, perhaps some more, rather pointed questions from the president biden, to chancellor shots about what does germany really want to do? what are right, what are its intentions? some of those intentions have become increasingly clear today, so we know that the german defense ministry is sending $350.00 further troops to augment its contingent of troops. in lithuania, the problem there is that although in lithuania there is the, the concern about the ukraine crisis. the point here is that those german troops are at least 450 kilometers away from the nearest ukrainian border. and the country

of belarus is between the ukrainian border and where they're going to be. and that is the crux of this ukranian government is looking for help looking for ways to bolster its presence on its front lines with russia in its view. the german government wants very much to be seen as being at the forefront of diplomacy, but it does not want to send its munitions is weapons to the front lines of what could, what is currently, what seemingly an undeclared war. and in the last hour or so, we had a press conference between at the german foreign minister and the and, and, and, and her counterpart, ukrainian foreign minister to that shed any lights on how far germany is prepared to go to help ukraine in some ways we learned more from what we didn't hear than from what we did here. what did we hear? well,

we heard the german foreign minister repeat what had been report referred to previously and more coded language today. she was clear saying if there's an act of aggression by the russians against ukraine, than germany is prepared to go for sanctions in some way. and even if that involves a very heavy cost to germany, germany would be prepared to do it. but we didn't hear references to weapons. why? because or least didn't. he references the weapons being provided by the germans to the ukrainians. because the german government has this feeling of collective guilt that is descended down through multiple generations of german government since world war 2. it does not want to be seen to be arming, anybody who would use those weapons against the russians. because of the vast tens of millions of casualties caused by nazi germany in the course of world war 2. so you don't hear all manner of things and the one other thing we know is not being taking place. due to a parent shed ruling difficulties,

no meeting between annabel bach and the ukranian president zalinski that took place 3 weeks ago. she came here to day to care to day, expecting to be meeting the foreign minister and the president. instead, she meets the foreign minister and the prime minister. it's apparently just a scheduling issue says the german foreign office. but we also know that the ukrainian government has been beseeching the german government for military assistance in the form of weapons. instead of getting how it says with which to fired offensive weapons against a rush, an act of aggression. they've been given helmets and hospitals. that's why there are those in ukraine who are very angry with the german government right now. oh, very interesting. dominic came there for us in been in frankie or russian troops and military equipment remain on the baller ish and border with ukraine. the 2 countries happened holding joint military exercises. on the other hamid when to

find out how that is affecting the lives of people who live along e crane's northern border. i didn't know viet elevate, she border crossing it's business as usual. about a 1000 people transit through here every day. going to and coming from bella luce, on the other side, russian. bella russo holding joint military exercises, but no sign of that here. still the border guards say they on high alert and prepared. but how? leveling to view the food you keep will do, cube to give to mom. it depends on the forces which will oppose us and on the situation we will face. the only thing i can say, i said there are units ready to react in case of any threat coming from the neighboring country. there's little to show in terms of military build up on the ukrainian side of the crossing. this ditch was dug a while ago. it's now being reinforced with coils of razor wire. this road is more

than 2000 kilometer. as long as starts in odessa on, the black sea goes to cave towards the north of the country, crosses bella ruse, and ends up in saint petersburg in russia. so should russia decide to send its troops across the border into ukraine, from bela ruth? this would be a perfect way in from here, it's an easy for, i was drive south to the capital. but at the moment it's ukrainian troops who are under move north. you chris northern border is more than a 1000 kilometer long rewards or yeah, but nicolai shenker remembers when there were no demarcations. russia, bela roost, and ukraine were all part of the soviet union. he says his life was better them. graham and his wife nadia is suspicious of us and says that no one here will tell

us what they really think people here closely linked to russia. valerie petrovitch tells us people into mary go shopping across the border. that's where he got his boots and he doesn't see their big neighbor as the enemy ringing in utah, tanya, but no, no, no, no, no, nobody will fight everyone here. we'll laugh about it. we don't care. i watch tv, and it's horrible. our troops are mobilizing, mobilize in russians, don't care why let them come. we will welcome them. they won't do anything to us. we are not afraid, because we are a part of russia. but i'm sure me nearby you. ah, if they were to invade russians could also come through this and keep crossing. it sits at the junction of ukraine, bella roost to the west, and russia to the east. the 3 sisters monument, a symbol of brighter days, between the 3 countries and natalie and his wife are found

a way to visit their daughter and grandchildren in moscow. they don't go as often because of the uncertainty of a looming war. but he, like most people living near the border, don't agree. oh, see why relations between kevin moscow have reached such a low point. what does that mean? edges era along ukraine's northern border? you and report says north korea stolen tens of millions of dollars of crypto currency to help finance it's nuclear, ballistic missile program, and says, feeling young stole more than $50000000.00 through cyber attacks between 2020 and last year. a separate study indicates as much as $400000000.00 may have been stolen . north korea conducted 9 ballistic missile tests last month and seizes a stamp rise if the new yorker has conducted extensive research on north gray is hacking activities. he says the crypto currency market is an easy target for

digital things. it is something to worry about. i do think that some increased transparency on behalf of you know, the cryptic currency ecosystem would help through their exchanges. contact current exchanges where people buy and sell or that have been, they've been hacked. no more. the ones that was one in south korea. they've been hacked 4 times. you know, the coin stolen from a hot wallet. so that is a tremendous lapse of security. and we don't hear about it because there is, there is no impulse on behalf of the exchanges to publicize, you know, slightly more ordered and better regulated sector might need some more transparency on this fantastic work done by no, by nation states, but also by some private sector actors on tracing the assets of crypto assets that have been stolen back. so the point of which i cashed out are into currency.

and you can just see how sophisticated some of these, you know, money don't bring chains on that. so it's really going to take a huge amount of effort on behalf of the private sector and nation states. they're leasing bodies to get a handle on what's happening there. at least 10 people have been injured by sudanese security forces who fired tear gas to despise demonstrators. marching towards the presidential palace income to thousands of staged weekly rallies to denounced the military rule since most she took over in october and the $79.00 people have been killed by security force. and since then, pro democracy groups have refused to negotiate with the army until that is a civilian lead administration. however, morgan has a latest form called to the fight a band on gatherings in the central part of the dance capital by the state security committee processes against military rule. on monday, once again,

the street making their way to the presidential palace to voice the anger against the military rule, which is now in the 4th month. processes are demanding that the military return to the barrack, but they also having other demands which include accountability for the process. this will have been killed since the military overpower and late october last year . evolving. government also demanding the release of its ample is the need to have been erected by the military because of their opposition to the military rules. security important have repeatedly was to disperse similar process and nearly 8. the processes have been killed. one and 2500 has been injured since the military take over last year. on monday, security forces. once again, you've got to disperse processes from the vicinity of the presidential palace, with fries to make their way and let the military know that they want power behind it. so civilian government now sit down. sovereignty council headed by general

abdel who led the take over, says that it will not handle the power unless one elected government or a government that comes to power through a political consensus. and that is the issue here. political consent has been very hard to reach since that take over many political parties have used to actually sit down with the military and negotiate a deal to nominate a transitional government to me until. and the kids are like 2023, african allowed them with the hon. the un mission. and saddam has been trying to end the political deadlock. but for the time being protested, continued to take to the 3, demanding the military hannibal power to civilian government. thing that is the reason why the south of the revolution in 2018 and they will continue to protest until a civilian government is in place. hundreds of mourners in morocco have attended the funeral of the boy at the center of a rescue operation watched around the world, 5 year old rayon fell into 30 to meet

a while. last week he was trumped for 4 days. while rescue teams at work to round the clock to save him, his body was recovered on saturday. still head on al jazeera forest fires in columbia blamed on criminal gangs on choking the capitol. what smoke klaus must ping the ice flow, whine ye. research could be bad news for some communities who depend on glaciers. ah look forward to brighter skies. the with sponsored play cattle at ways. you're locked into your weather update for asia. hello everyone, great to see you for the northwest of india. temperatures are coming up so that should help improve the air quality. next for go into southern sections of the be

been goal. we've got a cluster of cells here. it's just going to swipe the eastern portion. i'm sure lanka on tuesday next, stop se, asia we've had thunder. downpours for west java jakarta, scooping up more than 60 millimeters of rain solid bands of rain over colon, poor and singapore. now for indo china, plenty of sun for now. this is a forecast on tuesday, bangkok at 34, but we're going to shake up that weather pattern next, 3 days, thundering, downpours, high humidity here feeling about 37 and breezy conditions on thursday after central areas of china, mostly cloud cover here. but we've got some snow locked in between the gang, see, and the pearl river valley likely showers for a while in with the high of 6 degrees. but talking about that snow, a new record set for support for 60 cent heater is picked up within 24 hours. so trains were canceled on monday. we'll see if we can get them go in on tuesday and still more snow showers on tuesday. so paro has a high minus one mix. it's sunday cloud though, for tokyo. 11 degrees will be the high for you. that's it. that's all we'll see

soon. take care. oh, the weather sponsored by katara weighs on counting the costs of factions again and the claim stand off foss, what they really buys your energy supplies of the crosshead who could fill the gap at the world trade organization support china again to us is aging, winning count on the cost of the euro, ah, shoot ace of the documentary films across the network on al jazeera. ah oh,

you're watching out as a reminder for top stories this hour, it's a big day of diplomacy as well as work to avert a possible russian invasion of ukraine, a french and russian president san talking one on one in moscow when the german chancellor is in washington, the talks with the u. s. president, a u. n report says north korea use cyber attacks to finance it's nuclear, antagonistic missile programs and says pyongyang stole at least $50000000.00 of cryptic currency in the past 2 years. east 10 people have been injured by sudanese security forces who find t gas to disperse. demonstrate is in cartoon, thousands of stage weekly rallies to denounce ministry rule, since the takeover ain't october. now, a new atlas developed by researches in france in the u. s. is giving a clara, but mixed picture of the world's mountain glace is there around $250000.00 of them

across the globe. now the findings by the institute of environmental, jew sciences and dartmouth college show that overall they hold less ice and fresh water than expected. so that is good for the fight against rising sea levels. but the research has gloomy implications for drinking water, agriculture, and power generation in places that depend on those glazes. there's about a quarter less glacial ice and drinking water than previously thought in south america's tropical. and these mountain, which run through pulse of bolivia, columbia, ecuador, peru, and venezuela. but it's the opposite in ages himalayan mountains data that shows that the region has about 37 percent more ice than scientists anticipated. so what does this all mean? we can speak to remain milan. he's a post doctoral scholar at the institute of environmental jeers sciences. he joins

us from grenoble. and he, thanks for joining the program. so from what i can see, there's good news and bad news. let's start with the good news. it does mean that the sea levels weren't rise as much as expected bright, if the glace is all melting. so yes, you're right, but it could be perceive as a good years 1st. but in fact, what you have to keep in mind is that our study does not include the greenland and the undocked to guys sheet. who in the long term will be the major drivers of sea level rise. and just looking at the total volume of the ice sheet, compare to the glaciers. if all and toxic outward mouth, it has the potential to increase the seat of a rise by more than 50 meters, which is way more than the 25 centimeters for from the glaciers. so what parts of the world are going to be most affected by this?

so what we find here is that the best of the world for that are going to be the most effective on the end is what we will study suggest that they should be less fresh, what the availability for people there. and so, which will increase the pressure for fresh water resources for, for these people. on the contrary in the himalayas, as you said, we find that there is likely more fresh water which can reduce depression on these resources there. so now that we have this information, how does that help us deal with the consequences if this issue how does he have to deal with that exact and so. so we hope we are going to really is that, that i said publicly. so every one scientist and policy maker can use all data that out to, to anticipate the effect of climate change or on fresh what,

what resources instead of a rise. and we hope that our dead, i will also be used in other climate studies to more accurately model the future relation of nature's. okay, thank you for your time. roman 1000000 post doctoral scholar at the institute of environmental chair sciences now in columbia. hundreds of while fires burning in the amazon drought heats and often attacks by on groups of thought to be behind the blazes. now the capital has been put on air pollution. lead young can go to reports toxic as shocking columbia's capital book or time a thick cloud of smoke looms over its 8000000 people, carried by troy winds hundreds of kilometers away from fires, burning in the amazon that i had. okay, was the ceo. cornerstone, secretary as a law we have decided together with our secretary of health to decree, a yellow alert for the prevention and care of severe respiratory disease in bogota

throughout the public and private hospital system. the air quality is so bad, the government says it's best to stay most the endorse. but for those who can't, it's come at a cost lynette somebody's up or like what that mean? i feel miss beverly got the yellow alert for pollution, haunts me because i work on the street every day and it's harming my lungs more than it should because it has increased more. in columbia's amazon record temperatures and deforestation, blamed on formal fox rebels, are creating a combust, if makes here, the defense minister gets a 1st time look at the nation's largest national park, a unesco world heritage site under threat and a love or you this awful to an army big city because the national park was burnt by criminal hands that seek through this practice of the forest to appropriate the landing lot. and the responsibility for the support practice lies with the fog

dissidence. yes, a lot the ever since the fark rebels disarmed and gave up control of the territories, they once held destruction of the amazon has been on the rise. groups of rebels who rejected the 2016 piece to you, or the government are accused of starting fires to greece capital or grew coca to make cocaine. its effects are now being felt in cities across columbia. priyanka alters here. in hong kong, strict 0, coven, noisy in strategy, is facing its biggest challenge. yet as the territory deals with record infections is followed. mainland, china's approach of trying to eliminate outbreaks, as soon as they emerge. but as brit planet reports, the omi called variance has driven out cases thousands of hong kong residents

queuing out the testing centers across the city. on the day, the territory records the highest number of over 19 cases. since the pandemic began a record 614 infections were reported on monday, nearly doubled, the number announced the day before. many of the cases are traceable. 30 is called the shop search, an unprecedented challenge and urged people to stay at home for people in hong kong who lived for months without any local transmission last year. this is uncharted territory, really worries not only for myself, but mostly for my family and the other. people are only basically, yeah, it's been a crazy one. the years started. you know, no one expected this home or you for the government should be more scientific or have a strategy and roadmap to let the public understand the purpose of the epic measures . the government does not have a new role of strategy. now, the only random plants, hong kong authorities have given no sign, they're willing to via,

from the 0 coded 19 strategy adopted by mainland china. especially when the vaccination ratings among hong kong is elderly remains sluggish. tricks. pandemic controls are still in place including flight bands in quarantine facilities for those who test positive. hong kong is bracing for social distancing restrictions to be extended even further and officials war that cases he could rise in the coming days. as the effects of last week's luna, new year gatherings take hold requirements. al jazeera hong kong, japan's prime minister for me, because she says he wants to double the coven 90 booster shot program to a 1000000 doses a day. by the end of the month, few than 5 percent of the japanese population has received the booster shots. nationwide infections driven by the mccomb very and passed a 100000 for the 1st time on saturday was taken nearly 2 years apart from the february 21st. australia is reopening its borders. solely in government. closed the

country off to the west. the world in a bed to control the spread of cov, 19, and vaccinate, as many people as possible. vain bas robbie has more. throughout the pandemic, the island continent of australia has earned a reputation for imposing some of the harshest and most sweeping restrictions on travel. strict rules have applied to visitors, permanent residence and citizens alike. almost 2 years after closing the country's borders, prime minister scott morrison announced a national security committee cabinet decision to reopen australia's doors. the condition is you must be double vaccinated to come to australia. that's the rule everyone is expected to abide by it and it's very important that people understand that requirement. if this they can come to a strive it, but if you double vaccinated, we look forward to welcome you back to a strike. he also made reference to serbian tenant star novak chalk of which deported and unable to participate in the australian open last month because he was

not vaccinated against corona virus. but we just want to stress that you will need to provide that proof of vaccination. your visa is one thing that your entry into a stride yet requires you also to be double vaccinated. and i think events earlier in the year should have sent a very clear message. i think every around the world that that is the requirement to enter into a strategy border restrictions were 1st relaxed in november to welcome international students and skilled micros. the latest move is expected to rehabilitate the countries beleaguer tourism sector. we need international bodies to open. i think, you know, because there is a globalized country, you know, you put about it global as economy, you're done as much in a time. it's exciting. so it's like the end of the period of kingdom, this ending. i'm certainly excited when opportunities is what we want to leave the country and come back is great. almost all the part of the country is open. the

board is not as sweet, but it. so it was really difficult and you know, so many people went to depression because they had got a lot of plans. and so now i'm really happy that morrison has made that announcement visitors with valid proof of a medical exemption for the vaccines are able to apply for a travel exemption, but will still have to abide by strict cove in 1900 rules that vary from place to place including a to record teen. if traveling to western australia, the country's largest state was in basra, v o 0 counseling for nandan and elmore hill, the 70th anniversary, the accessor, accession of queen elizabeth to the throne. it's all part of a series of events that will celebrate her 7 decades long reign. anniversary fell on sunday. the flute was moved to monday and the royal tradition don't salute are

not held on a sunday. and there's been a raspberry colon, the skies of northern mexico. this trail of bright lights was spotted above the california state videos and event were posted on social media on clear what was caught on camera. but it is believed to be meat to write a temporary ah, this is algebra. these you'd help stories. and it's a big day of diplomacy as well, late as work to that, a possible russian invasion of ukraine, the french and russian presidents, the talking one on one in moscow and the german chancellor is in washington for talks with the us president. dominic kane is embellish, explains how germany's government wants to handle the crisis ukraine.